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Holyfield-Tyson Slugfest
Was a Favorite for the Fans

Updated Nov. 10, 1996 9:11 p.m. ET

LAS VEGAS -- There have been more astonishing boxing outcomes than Evander Holyfield's 11th-round stoppage of Mike Tyson here Saturday night, but few more popular ones. Fully 10 minutes after referee Mitch Halpern had waved Holyfield off the reeling Tyson, people stood at their seats in the MGM Grand Arena, embracing one another or waving the remains of their tickets. One suspects that many of those stubs will be mounted and framed, proof that the owner was, indeed, there.